The Central Branch of the Kansas City Public Library started life as the First National Bank. Some surprising features of the bank still remain.

Balanos's uncovered clamps corroded and expanded, cracking and even destroying the marble ... the columns, architraves, floors, and other architectural elements, possibly to make the building ...

After the Parthenon’s exposed marble surfaces had been smoothed ... carved scale drawing similar to the one at Didyma in building the columns of the Parthenon. Haselberger also traced a ...

The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.